National Lampoon's ObamaCare Vacation

State exchange chiefs skip town, while Obama hires a hit man.

Updated Dec. 19, 2013 10:13 p.m. ET

President Obama has responded to the ObamaCare debacle by bringing in Beltway liberal mastermind John Podesta as a senior West Wing hand, and he promptly announced his arrival by likening House Republicans to "a cult worthy of Jonestown" in an interview with Politico. The states running their own insurance exchanges are exacting more accountability for their ObamaCare failures.